Dell EMC refreshes Unity arrays with splash of Skylake and NVMe

Dell next month will refresh the Unity mid-range storage array line with Skylake Xeon processors and NVMe – the latter as expected after I revealed the firm’s plan in November last year.

According to our sources, data reduction capability is “vastly improved” through better deduplication and compression.

The new products will make their public debut at Dell Technologies World in April at Las Vegas and we understand the numbering scheme for the new arrays is 380, 480, 580 and 680. Other details are scant – for now.

We learned in November 2018 that persistent memory in the form of SCM was an incoming technology on PowerMAX, as was NVMe (both drives and fabric), and we also anticipated back then that both mid-range arrays – SC and Unity – would therefore have SCM support added to their operating systems, and that it would happen before the end of 2019.